Angor had exhausted his soul energy. With the bloating sense gone, he felt exceptionally refreshed. Also, after being tempered by the soul furnace, Angor’s soul was now purer than ever.
The boy floated to Sunders with a joyful look.
“I get it, professor. It’s the sequence of gravity,” Angor spoke proudly.
Sunders nodded. “Indeed. Compared to Toby, you gained a better comprehension of the sequence. You already know how to apply gravity to other objects.”
Sunders spoke in his calm tone. However, deep inside, the gentleman had developed a mixed emotion. As the owner of the gravity garden, he never learned the sequence of gravity, which was still acceptable. Yet his student beat him to it… Heck, even the bird of his student could do it. This could be a big joke when people learned about it.
Although Sunders quickly got over this little embarrassment. He had seen too many things in the human world to get troubled by such trivial problems.
“It’s a pity that you cannot use it again without enough soul energy of your own,” said Sunders. He revealed a puzzled look and asked, “I’m wondering… When the Sorcerer’s Garden was constructed, you really didn’t sense anything?”
Usually, when the world’s consciousness injected a law into a finished Sorcerer’s Garden, anyone who learned something about the law would quickly understand it. Toby had already proved it by showing them its new strength on the same day.
Angor, however, only achieved the same thing after he understood the nature of the gray fog. When Angor said he did not learn anything from the garden, he really meant it.
Angor went over his memory. “I… did not sense anything back then.”
And he was sure of his answer.
“But… I was in a really strange state when the world’s consciousness worked on the law.”
“A strange state?”
Angor tried to describe what he felt that day with the correct words. “It was something new to me. It wasn’t meditation, but I still felt the surrounding turning very calm and quiet. My mind felt like a giant grassland. It could contain wind, clouds, the sky. I could sense everything that was happening around me, including the rhythm caused by the world’s consciousness.”
Ness sent a voice transmission to Sunders, “I think I know what he’s talking about. It sounds like…”
“Tranquility of the soul!” Sunders and Ness revealed the answer at the same time.
The tranquility of body, mind, and soul meant three different meditation levels. The tranquility of the body was the first challenge that separated mortals from supernaturals because mortals could not enter the state of meditation with their distracting thoughts.
The tranquility of the mind was only something possible for wizards. Such a state helped them enter a meditation quickly in the noisiest environments.
An even higher level of the meditation was called “tranquility of the soul”. When someone could calm his soul, nothing would ever disturb him again.
This was mostly an unreachable state for wizards. Someone who managed to achieve tranquility of the soul would be able to comprehend all reasons and learn knowledge faster than ever. Every wizard out there would give everything to meditate in such a level.
How to enter such a state had been a constant debate topic among wizards in the south. There had been wizards of different levels who succeeded in it, including legendary wizards and fresh apprentices. This meant that whether someone could achieve tranquility of the soul had little to do with their strengths.
But not everyone believed so. There were ancient parchments which said that high-leveled wizards could all enter the state. Here, by “high-leveled wizards”, the stories in the parchments referred to level-6 formal wizards or someone beyond.
Today, only level-4 wizards who successfully found their paths of truth were considered “legendary wizards”.
Level-6 meant two more levels beyond these people. The southern region had not seen another legendary since Barzel the Great Twisted Wizard disappeared from everyone’s view a thousand years ago, which meant these ancient stories would never be proved.
Nowadays, most wizards in the south considered such a meditation state as something brought by a rare destiny.
“Maybe he simply hit the luck? But why must he enter the tranquility of soul right when the world’s consciousness brought the law? Such a coincidence,” Ness transmitted his voice to Sunders.
“Or maybe it isn’t all about destiny after all. The appearance of the world’s consciousness fulfilled one of the conditions,” Sunders pondered. Like Ness, he did not believe that his student only had his luck to thank for. There had to be something that helped Angor achieved “soul tranquility”, and Angor found it.
Angor continued his story. “The rhythm brought by the law beat in my mind like music notes that came alive. But it didn’t last very long. Some powerful drumbeats interrupted the music, and they pressed me on the ground. I couldn’t move. I only felt better when the law was finally completed.”